tChange the FAQ for the new Backspace behaviour. - st - [fork] customized build… | |
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commit cf1fcc4d96f9162272003f82839388093c01360e | |
parent 230d0c8428456603ce3629dac75c46abc4c9f016 | |
Author: Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]> | |
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:20:28 +0100 | |
Change the FAQ for the new Backspace behaviour. | |
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M FAQ | 16 +++++++++------- | |
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) | |
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diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ | |
t@@ -98,10 +98,14 @@ If you want to compile st for OpenBSD you have to remove -… | |
st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions a… | |
included in libc on this platform. | |
-## Backspace key does not work | |
+## The Backspace Case | |
+ | |
+St is emulating the Linux way of handling backspace being delete and delete be… | |
+backspace. | |
This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list | |
-<http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>: | |
+<http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>. Here is why some old grumpy | |
+terminal users wants its backspace to be how he feels it: | |
Well, I am going to comment why I want to change the behaviour | |
of this key. When ASCII was defined in 1968, communication | |
t@@ -155,11 +159,9 @@ This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing l… | |
[1] http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html | |
[2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html | |
-## But I really want a wrong backspace key and a wrong delete key | |
+## But I really want the old grumpy behaviour of my terminal | |
-If you really want emulate the errors of another terminal emulators | |
-and have a backspace key that generates a DELETE and a delete key | |
-that generates BACKSPACE, then you can apply the patch | |
-found in [1], but please do not tell me it. | |
+Apply [1]. | |
[1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey | |
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